“She has given so much of herself to the world, lived so fiercely it is splendid…” So wrote fellow …

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“She has given so much of herself to the world, lived so fiercely it is splendid…” So wrote fellow artist Dora Carrington of her friend Valentine Dobree, the beautiful, aristocratic yet volatile daughter of an English diplomat who lived her life variously as novelist, poet and artist.She was perhaps best known for her …

“She has given so much of herself to the world, lived so fiercely it is splendid…” So wrote fellow …

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“She has given so much of herself to the world, lived so fiercely it is splendid…” So wrote fellow artist Dora Carrington of her friend Valentine Dobree, the beautiful, aristocratic yet volatile daughter of an English diplomat who lived her life variously as novelist, poet and artist.She was perhaps best known for her …